Cleatus Collins

Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Edith Ford Memorial Cemetery with the Rev. Dinzel Leonard officiating. Arrangements are by Hughs Funeral Home of Canadian.

Cleatus was born July 10, 1928, in Tryon, Okla., to the late John Collins and Ruth Bellah Collins. He attended grammar school at Red Mound and was a 1946 graduate of Carney High School in Carney, Okla. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.

He married Sheila McCabe on Sept. 9, 1949, at the First Baptist Church in Skellytown. They moved to Canadian on Feb. 26, 1966, from Skellytown.

Cleatus worked for Magnolia and then went to Phillips Petroleum in Borger. He then went to work for Mobil Oil until retiring in February 1987. He was a longtime member of First Baptist Church in Canadian.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Walter Lee Collins; and a sister, Barbara Gail Collins.

Survivors include his wife, Sheila Collins; and a son, Michael Collins of Canadian.